I've made 4 OBW's and didn't starch any of them before cutting. Lining up the print is important, but once your flower pins are in to hold it together the rest is fairly straight forward. It's fun to turn your triangles the three different ways to select which way they'll be to form your hexagon. Chain piece them together, press seams open. Deciding on final placement will be the hardest, at least it is for me. Then it's just sew the half hex's together to make your strips and then sew the strips together to make the top. This method is by far the fastest way to make a quilt, I've found anyway.